Absolute® Manage Mobile Device Management (Absolute Manage MDM) provides remote management capabilities for Apple® iOS devices (iPhone®, iPad touch®, iPad™). Customers can remotely engage with their deployment within the administrator console and perform standard maintenance routines as well as take strategic and responsive measures based upon the requirements of each device.

Absolute Manage MDM is authentically cross platform and can be installed within a Mac or a Windows environment, so there’s no need to invest in additional infrastructure or hardware components.

Absolute Manage MDM is available as a component within Absolute Manage or as a stand-alone product.

Absolute Manage MDM does not require an agent to be installed on the device for basic management functions, such as device enrollment, device querying, deploying configuration profiles, or locking and wiping devices. However, there is an app provided called Absolute Apps that serves a number of particularly compelling functions:

Self-serve portal for recommended App Store apps

Distribution of ASVPP app redemption codes

Device geotracking

Deployment of in-house apps

Self-service, on-demand configuration profiles

Detection of jailbroken devices

Other unique features include the ability to build profiles with variable data inputs. For example, a standard Exchange profile for all users could include the symbolic “email address”, “username,” and other necessary fields. The actual data, customized per user, is inserted to the profile when it is deployed.

Packaging

Is the service hardware, software, or cloud?

SaaS:

Appliance:

Windows Software:

Mac Software:

Unix Software:

Virtual Machine:

Reseller Theming:

Licensing

How do you pay for the service?

Recurring License:

Perpetual License:

Maintenance

In addition to purchase, is there recurring maintenance? What does it include?

Purchase:

Optional

Includes Minor Updates:

Includes Major Updates:

Includes Support:

Support

How and when is support provided?

12 x 5:

12 x 7:

24 x 7:

Scalability

Are there features such as segmented administration and fault tolerance that help the product successfully manage tens of thousands of devices?

Locations:

Location-Specific Admins:

Role-Based Admins:

Standalone Server:

Fail-Over Capability:

Load Balancing:

Device Enrollment

What methods are available for enrolling devices?

Web Portal:

iOS App:

Configuration Profile:

Device Enrollment Program (iOS 7):

User Authentication

What method exist to authenticate users?

Active Directory:

Open Directory:

Other LDAP:

User/Pass Upload:

Basic MDM Features

Basic legacy features common to almost every MDM platform.

Require Passcode:

Device Restrictions:

Exchange Account Seeding:

WiFi Configuration:

VPN Info:

Remote Wipe:

Remove Passcode:

Remote Lock:

Push Text Message:

Advanced MDM Features

Less common mobile management features.

Start On Date:

End On Date:

Versioning:

Rollback:

Triggered by Inventory:

Allow custom XML:

Supervised Device Features

These restrictions are applicable only on [[Supervision|supervised devices]]